Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

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Status Year Sex Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Female AA 7790 6735 26710 27800
In post 2025 Female AO 64365 55610 27570 26640
In post 2025 Female EO 77960 70440 31860 30980
In post 2025 Female G6 11370 10800 76580 75200
In post 2025 Female G7 31355 29760 61920 61100
In post 2025 Female HEO 48770 46050 38320 37670
In post 2025 Female SCS level 3825 3645 99110 90820
In post 2025 Female SEO 37265 35460 46990 45950
In post 2025 Female Unknown 17640 16275 34080 31650
In post 2025 Male AA 8095 7625 27310 27840
In post 2025 Male AO 50805 48645 29830 26750
In post 2025 Male EO 60440 58345 32580 30980
In post 2025 Male G6 11895 11600 77360 76380
In post 2025 Male G7 30485 29810 62630 61740
In post 2025 Male HEO 42185 41130 39050 37980
In post 2025 Male SCS level 3950 3880 103390 94250
In post 2025 Male SEO 34465 33655 47930 46490
In post 2025 Male Unknown 6970 6655 34900 31650
In post 2025 Unknown AO 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Unknown EO 5 5 [c] [c]
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Notes: Summary figures are suppressed when information relates to less than 5 civil servants for FTE or Headcount, and less than 10 civil servants for median and mean salary (shown as [c]). Zero responses and salaries for less than 30 civil servants have been suppressed for GPDR special category data. FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups. Figures are rounded to the nearest 5, or £10 as appropriate.

Data source: All figures are aggregated from the Cabinet Office Annual Civil Service Employment Survey collection.

Version: Generated on 2025-07-16

Data column Description
Status Employment status of the civil servants.
In post - includes staff that were in post on the reference date (31 March).
New entrant CS - includes new entrants to the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March).
Leaver CS - includes leavers from the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March). This includes employees who have an Unknown leaving cause.
Leaver Dept. - includes leavers from the department over the year (1 April to 31 March), who did not leave the Civil Service.
Five organisations do not report when their employees first entered the Civil Service and so entrants data for these organisations is not available . These are as follows: Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (excl. agencies), Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Services, United Kingdom Statistics Authority, Scottish Forestry and Forest and Land Scotland.
Year Year of data collection (as at 31 March).
Responsibility_level_ungrouped With the exception of the centrally managed Senior Civil Service, government departments have delegated pay and grading. For statistical purposes departments are asked to map their grades to a common framework by responsibility level.
This table shows staff in their substantive responsibility level unless on temporary promotion in which case staff are recorded at the higher responsibility level.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Headcount Total number of civil servants (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE Total full-time equivalent (FTE) employment numbers (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups.
Mean_salary Average salary (mean, rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).
Median_salary Median salary (rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).